Bow Shock's Geometry at the Magnetospheric Flanks

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Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003agufmsh21b0106m&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2003, abstract #SH21B-0106

Physics

2154 Planetary Bow Shocks, 2784 Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, 7851 Shock Waves

Scientific paper

During almost three decades of operation, the IMP-8 satellite collected an extensive amount of both plasma and magnetic field measurements. The entire dataset has been searched for all Earth's bow shock crossings observed by IMP-8 and more then 11,000 crossings were found. Due to the IMP-8's orbital trajectory, most of the bow shock crossings were observed at the magnetospheric flanks where the Xgse position was between 0 and -20 Re while the Zgse positions between -20 and 20 Re. About 5000 individual bow shock crossings were used in this study to investigate the bow shock's cross-section: deviations from the circular profile, IMF orientation and Mach number effects on its shape.

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